Thursday, November 29, 2007

And for the Very Latest...

This just gets more incredible by the minute. Peter Hain has just admitted he got £5k via Abrahams or one of his agents Jon Mendelsohn too and didn't declare it to the Electoral Commissionm. A lawyer called Neill Blundell has just very eloquently explained why the following people will be needing the services of M'Learned Friend 'ere too long...

David AbrahamsJanet KiddRodney the BuilderJonathan the LawyerJon MendelsohnPeter Watt

He also reckons Harriet Harman could face prosecution via the Electoral Commission in a Magistrates Court for her non declaration of loans.

Quick question for Harriet. What's she done to make sure the only people who attend her Leicester Square bash are a) known personally to her b)known personally to her campaign team or c) registered Labour party donors. Because if they aren't any of the above, she won't be able to accept their 30 quid.

A number of the newspapers are suggesting with very broad hints that Mr Abrahams did not have the financial wherewithal to make such substantial donations to the Labour Party and that he too may have been acting as a go-between. Is it possible that the actual donor was not a UK citizen possibly an Israeli? If so that would be dynamite.

Quite obviously by giving money to so many different horses in the same race he was not making a principled decision on who he wished to get the job but buying friends.

Because our planning system, rather than any actual expenses of building things, is the greatest brake on development in this country any idiot can become a multi-millionaire development if they are just lucky enough to have politicians willing to give them planning permission.

Coincidently it has turned out that Wendy Alexander got an illegal donation for her Scottish labour leadership campaign - it came from a Glasgow's main property developer & was solicited by Charlie Gordon, Glasgow Labour's former leader.

Apart from the fact that we are damaging our economy by such planning restrictions this also, obviously, encourages corruption.